One week. Two political parties. 1,100 boys. Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s documentary Boys State (an Apple Original Films and A24 release; now streaming on Apple TV+) tells the story of four boys ...

Attempts to reduce the barrier of entry to content by intentionally producing it in a way that makes it seem low-quality have persisted since the inception of online media. Early examples of this ...

Netflix releases more content than any other streaming service, and a significant portion of that output is non-fiction material. Although there are certainly a number of exploitative docudramas meant ...

Jane Rosenthal is taking the pulse of the nonfiction feature space — and it doesn’t look good. The mega-producer and Tribeca co-founder told Variety during a recent interview that she is “worried” ...

At the 2025 edition of CPH:DOX, extreme political tension in the U.S. and parts of Europe cast a cloud of uncertainty over the Copenhagen-based documentary film festival. While nonfiction films that ...

It’s no secret that corporations like Netflix, Amazon, and Apple have lost their appetite for current event documentaries that tackle politics. The good old days when streamers shelled out seven ...

On March 25, the veteran film producer Erika Dilday spoke at a documentary conference in Copenhagen, on a panel addressing the many challenges, political and otherwise, that now face nonfiction-film ...

"Fewer places are buying hard-hitting documentaries," the Tribeca co-founder and mega-producer said. When asked how the “business” of documentary films are going — citing how the Tribeca Festival is ...